300 Neighborhood Quotes for You to Enjoy

My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either. Ada Yonath

Women Progressing Neighborhood Though Prevent Encourage Either Really

You know what Oprah taught me? Unless you count as changing your life having a neighborhood dad say to you every morning at the school bus stop, 'You sure don't look as good as you did on 'Oprah!', being on 'Oprah' doesn't change your life. Alice Dreger

Life Good Morning Me You Change School Every Changing Unless Say Neighborhood Having Count Know Look Sure Oprah Did Stop Taught Being Bus Your Dad

Dad has worked as a banker at the same firm in Boston, living in the same suburban neighborhood for over 50 years. Later in life, when I got out of graduate school and imagined myself living the life of a writer like Hemingway or Kerouac, his practical self inevitably encouraged me to get a steady a job and raise a family, just like he did. Amor Towles

Life Myself Family Me School Job Living Later Neighborhood Out Steady Boston Writer Self He Firm Over Like Practical Got Inevitably His Years Encouraged Get Did Same Graduate Graduate School Just Banker Suburban Worked Dad Hemingway Raise Imagined

I wanted to cut past the polemics and experience London's Muslim communities for myself. My first visit was to Tower Hamlets, an East London borough that is about 38% Muslim, among the highest in the U.K. As I walked down Whitechapel Road, the adhan, or call to prayer, echoed through the neighborhood. Andy Ngo

To grow up in the neighborhood of handicapped people was an important experience for me. I learned back then to treat them in a very normal way. Angela Merkel

Me Experience People Treat Important Back Way Neighborhood Learned Normal Up Very Handicapped Them Then Grow Grow Up

At 7, I was shooting 3s with so much ease that the guys at the neighborhood park were impressed. Michael Jordan was one of the best humans to walk the earth in my eyes, third only to Jesus and my mother. Angie Thomas

Sometimes, when the neighborhood is silent and the sky is aswarm with the stars and the mind is swirling like a flushed toilet, a person gets to doubting himself. In the hardest times, the stand-at-the-kitchen-sink-and-stare-into-the blackness times, I put on Bob Dylan's 'Tomorrow Is a Long Time.' Anthony Doerr

My first real awareness of Chechnya came when I was a college student studying in Russia. I arrived in St. Petersburg about two months after Anna Politkovskaya was assassinated for her reports on Chechnya. I lived with an elderly woman and her grown children in an apartment that was not too far from the neighborhood military cadet school. Anthony Marra

Woman School College First Military Awareness Too Months Neighborhood College Student About Russia Student Cadet Anna Chechnya Studying Real Came Arrived Reports Children After Apartment Elderly Far Lived Grown Her Two

When I was studying at the Neighborhood Playhouse, I would overdraft my bank account and not have enough money to buy groceries. But I also discovered how to cook with very limited resources. Antoni Porowski

Buy Money Enough Enough Money Resources Neighborhood Would Studying Also Limited Limited Resources How Discovered Very Account Bank Bank Account Groceries Cook

I had grown up in a privileged, upper-caste Hindu community; and because my father worked for a Catholic hospital, we lived in a prosperous Christian neighborhood. Aravind Adiga

Father Community Christian Neighborhood Hospital Had Prosperous Catholic Because Hindu Up Privileged Worked Lived Grown Grown-Up

People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.' Arlie Russell Hochschild

People Church Recycling Sense Group Market Our Neighborhood Something Kitchen Through Self Part Volunteer Feel Come Calls Self-Interest Soup Than Get Different Center Us Who Larger Belonging

Corporate engineers have looked at how women are with each other, borrowing the best tips from female neighborhood culture and then transporting them back into the bosom of capitalism. They've feminized capitalism. Arlie Russell Hochschild

I'm not naive. All politics is about identity, right? Neighborhood politics, cultural politics, issue politics. It's not as though I don't get that. It's just - it has to be, I think, tempered in a way that is for our overall advancement and not to our detriment or obliteration. When I say 'our,' I don't mean just communities of color. Ayanna Pressley

I'm very confident about my ability to earn votes in every neighborhood. Ayanna Pressley

Every Earn Neighborhood Ability About Votes Very Confident

Bad influences and distractions were around every corner. But I also learned that my neighborhood could be a nurturing, positive place to grow up. Ayanna Pressley

Positive Nurturing Every Corner Neighborhood Bad Distractions Could Also Learned Around Were Up Influences Place Grow Grow Up

Neighborhood restaurants matter. Ayanna Pressley

Matter Neighborhood Restaurants

My first job was cutting grass. In Miami, this grass grows everywhere. You just get the lawn mower out, walk down the neighborhood, cut grass. Barry Jenkins

You Walk Job First Down Grass Everywhere Neighborhood Out Lawn First Job Miami Get Just Cut Cutting Grows

Many foreclosed homes are neglected or abandoned, as legal proceedings or other factors delay their resale. Deteriorating or vacant properties can, in turn, directly affect the quality of life in a neighborhood, for example, by leading to increases in vandalism or crime. Ben Bernanke

Life Legal Quality Crime Delay Example Increases Other Neglected Neighborhood Abandoned Vandalism Deteriorating Properties Directly Factors Leading For Example Quality Of Life Affect Turn Many Homes Vacant

High levels of homeownership have been shown to foster greater involvement in school and civic organizations, higher graduation rates, and greater neighborhood stability. Ben Bernanke

School Neighborhood High Civic Rates Higher Involvement Greater Been Stability Graduation Organizations Shown Foster Levels

Reggie Campbell and Kathleen Goldsmith are participants in an American success story, the unprecedented boom of home-buying by African-Americans in the 1990s. Only he is black and she is white. When he moved into the neighborhood, she moved out. Bill Dedman

Success Black White Boom Neighborhood Out Unprecedented Only He Participants She Campbell American Moved Story Success Story

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